On Wed, 2007-04-04 at 12:52 -0400, John Anthony Kazos Jr. wrote:
According to Documentation/filesystems/Locking, -get_sb() is called
with the BKL held, but looking through the code, I'm not able to find
where it is being taken.
I noticed that too. Unless I'm just dumb and can't see it,
On Tue, 2007-04-10 at 12:03 -0400, Ming Zhang wrote:
On Wed, 2007-04-04 at 12:52 -0400, John Anthony Kazos Jr. wrote:
According to Documentation/filesystems/Locking, -get_sb() is called
with the BKL held, but looking through the code, I'm not able to find
where it is being taken.
I
Why does ext4_fill_super release the BKL on entry and take it on both
normal and abnormal exit? As far as I can see, ext4_fill_super is called
by get_sb_bdev, which calls the -get_sb method without the BKL, and
ext4_get_sb calls get_sb_bdev without the BKL. And the ext2 code does not
touch the
On Wed, 2007-04-04 at 08:57 -0400, John Anthony Kazos Jr. wrote:
Why does ext4_fill_super release the BKL on entry and take it on both
normal and abnormal exit? As far as I can see, ext4_fill_super is called
by get_sb_bdev, which calls the -get_sb method without the BKL, and
ext4_get_sb
According to Documentation/filesystems/Locking, -get_sb() is called
with the BKL held, but looking through the code, I'm not able to find
where it is being taken.
I noticed that too. Unless I'm just dumb and can't see it, I'm not able to
find any BKL references during filesystem mounting
